Secondary Market/Investors
Second liens, commonly made in the form of home equity lines of credit (HELOCs), are so far a silent hazard to first lien bond holders in residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), as many of these investors may not even know if...
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Donna Hunt strategically defaulted on her home.
It all began in 1995, when Hunt became a registered nurse. She had been divorced and single for 30 years, “one of those poor slobs just struggling along,” she said. But after she took a job working as a psychiatric nurse in a jail near Phoenix, Hunt finally felt [...]
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The pass-through market (location of virtually all of the action in capital market funding of residential loans; loans for pass-through execution are the predominant form of residential lending) generally accepted the FOMC's statement last week as the final word on its MBS purchase program. The Fed will end...
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Origination/Lending
Integrated Asset Services’ (IAS) monthly IAS360 House Price Index declined 0.7% from November to December, the Denver-based default management and...
Secondary Markets/Investors
Second liens, commonly made in the form of home equity lines of credit (HELOCs), are so far a silent hazard...
Servicing/Default
Edolphus Towns (D-NY), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, this month began an investigation of the...
